BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The St. Kitts-Nevis authorities Monday stated the judicial evaluate declare introduced in opposition to it by MSR Media has been withdrawn
In a short assertion, the federal government stated the matter was withdrawn simply earlier than it was set to trial within the Excessive Court docket. The case, filed in Might 2024, was scheduled to be heard by Resident Decide Madame Justice Tamara Gill.
Based on a courtroom order, MSR Media should formally discontinue the declare by Tuesday, March 25, 2025.
“This withdrawal brings to a detailed the second of two authorized actions initiated by MSR Media in 2024. The primary—a civil RICO lawsuit filed in the US District Court docket in Tampa, Florida—was additionally voluntarily dismissed in December 2024,” the federal government assertion stated.
It stated that regardless of the numerous media consideration surrounding these courtroom filings, “with the withdrawal of the Judicial Assessment matter, all authorized proceedings introduced by MSR Media in opposition to individuals and entities in St. Kitts and Nevis in regards to the CBI program have now concluded.”
MSR Media, led by film producer Philippe Martinez, had taken authorized steps in opposition to a number of Caribbean stakeholders concerned in Citizenship by Funding (CBI) packages. Below the CBI program, international buyers are granted citizenship of the nation in return for making a considerable funding within the socio-economic growth of that Caribbean nation.
St. Kitts-Nevis is amongst a number of Caribbean nations which have a CBI program. In an earlier press launch, the corporate introduced that it had filed a RICO (Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) swimsuit in a US federal courtroom.
Among the many defendants listed within the lawsuit embrace Les Kahn, the previous head of St. Kitts- Nevis Citizenship by Funding Unit (CIU) and present chief govt officer of Caribbean Galaxy; McClaude Emmanuel, the current chief govt officer of the St. Lucia CIU; Ying Jin of Caribbean Galaxy; former st. Kitts-Nevis prime minister Dr. Timothy Harris, Dr. Denzil Douglas, former St. Kitts-Nevis prime minister and present Overseas Affairs Minister, and Faron Lawrence, a Kittitian actual property developer.
The RICO swimsuit had urged MSR Media’s issues concerning alleged misconduct inside Galaxy, the earlier authorities of St. Kitts-Nevis, and the present CIU in St. Lucia.
MSR Media had filed a declare for judicial evaluate within the Excessive Court docket, looking for a mandamus to compel Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew to “revoke all citizenships granted to candidates beneath the Galaxy Jail who paid lower than the authorized value.”
Moreover, MSR Media had additionally alleged that Chinese language nationals concerned in cash laundering obtained citizenship in St. Kitts by means of the jail mission, using false identities.
